BACKGROUND Breast cancer is the most prevalent kind of cancer among women in Iran. Regarding the importance of cancer prevention and considerable variation of breast cancer incidence in different parts of the country, it is necessary to recognize regions with high incidence of breast cancer and evaluate the role of potential risk factors by use of advanced statistical models. The present study ...

Background and Aim: Enuresis is one of the important problems of childhood that has been associated with a wide variety of child and family problems. The purpose of this study was to determine the prevalence and associated factors of primary mono-symptomatic enuresis in 6 year old children in Yazd. Materials and Methods: In a descriptive cross-sectional study, 400 preschool children aged up to ...

background: colorectal cancer is one of the most common gastrointestinal cancers accounting for about 10 percent of cancer-related mortalities. the present study was performed in order to investigate the relationship between nutritional factors and colorectal cancer risk in the population of yazd, iran.   methods: this case-control study was conducted on 60 patients with colorectal cancer and 1...

BACKGROUND Road accidents are a social phenomenon in different communities that its infra-structural dimensions of which as well as technologic failures such as road quality, and tech-nical faults of automobiles, need to be assessed in detail. Iran has the first order in the world for deadly road accidents. This study was designed to assess the association between aberrant behaviors of truck dr...

Background Osteoporosis (OP) is one of the most prevalent metabolic bone diseases at higher ages, especially in postmenopausal women. Objective To determine the effect of consumption of garlic tablet on proteins oxidation biomarkers in postmenopausal osteoporotic women. Methods The present study was a double-blind randomized controlled clinical trial that included 42 postmenopausal women in...

Hyperstructure theory was born in 1934 when Marty [19] defined hypergroups as a generalization of groups. Let H be a non-empty set and let ℘∗(H) be the set of all non-empty subsets of H. A hyperoperation on H is a map ◦ : H ×H −→ ℘∗(H) and the couple (H, ◦) is called a hypergroupoid. If A and B are non-empty subsets of H, then we denote A◦B = ∪ a∈A, b∈B a◦b, x◦A = {x}◦A and A◦x = A◦{x}. Under c...

Background: Infective endocarditis (IE) is a microbial infection of heart valves and its endothelial lining which is considered as a life-threatening disorder. This study evaluated the epidemiological, clinical, and microbiological features of IE at the Cardiovascular Research Center in Yazd, Iran. Methods: The cross-sectional study was conducted on 20 patients diagnosed with definite IE on the...

INTRODUCTION Frequency of extended-spectrum beta-lactamases (ESBLs) and its variants may vary in different geographical areas, as reports indicate their spread in some certain communities. The aim of this study was to determine the frequency of ESBLs in strains of Klebsiella and E. coli, isolated from patients hospitalized in teaching hospitals of Yazd. METHODS This cross-sectional study was ...

INTRODUCTION Job stress has become one of the main factors in reducing efficiency and the loss of human resources that may cause physical and psychological adverse effects in employees. Hospital personnel are facing different stressful events, such as birth, pain and death, in a single day. Hence, identifying the job stress rates and related factors may be effective in offering proper strategie...